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Israel Miller's 'Show Folks Shoe Shop' Building
Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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One Times Square
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
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Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
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The Remnants of Tin Pan Alley
The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.
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Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
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C. O. Bigelow Apothecary
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
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Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
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Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
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Marie's Crisis
Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.
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Greenwich Locksmith
Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.
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The Narrowest Building in New York
This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.
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Jacques Derrida's Favorite Banana Bread
The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.
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Spring Street Salt Shed
This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.
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Ear Inn
One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).
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Staple Street Skybridge
Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.
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Mysterious Bookshop
The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.
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Berlin Wall Section
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
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'The Sphere'
This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.
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The Double Check Businessman
This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.
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The 'Ghostbusters' Firehouse
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
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Long Lines Building
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
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The Remnants of Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue
Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.
Milos, Greece
Catacombs of Milos
An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.
Córdoba, Spain
Cross of the Captive
A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.
